Louisiana : the new territory -- Napoleon's secret treaty with Spain -- Thomas Jefferson's dream -- The Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Summary:
Learn about the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, when the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.
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